Talk:Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

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fact-check/citation needed for statement on MIT - under 'Impact/College admissions'

I know for a fact that many major schools have released their institutional data for years, including class makeup / ethnicity by race. Example: Cornell in 2020, for the Class of 2024. https://irp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Profile2020_first-year.pdf -- Dano67 (talk) 23:43, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source issue

Under 'Defendants response', there's the following section:

> The school said the proportion of admitted Asian American students had grown from 17% to 21% in a decade, while Asian Americans represent around 6% of the U.S. population. It said it had studied more than a dozen race-neutral admissions alternatives and found that none promoted "Harvard’s diversity-related educational objectives as well as Harvard’s … admissions program while also maintaining the standards of excellence that Harvard seeks in its student body".

The quote at the end is a blurb appearing on their website that is a chopped-up excerpt from the study they performed.

Here is the link: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/diverse-education/files/report_of_the_committee_to_study_race-neutral_alternatives_final.pdf

Here is the full quote, at the beginning of the 'conclusion' section: "As set forth above, we conclude that, at present, no workable race-neutral admissions practices could promote Harvard’s diversity-related educational objectives as well as Harvard’s current whole-person race-conscious admissions program while also maintaining the standards of excellence that Harvard seeks in its student body."

I think it is more appropriate to use the full quote rather than omitting some of it with an ellipsis, but I got lost in the byzantine citing process when I tried to do it myself. Would someone with more familiarity with Wikipedia be able to make this change?

Thanks. 2607:FEA8:C11E:CF00:CC34:5313:8A15:A811 (talk) 14:18, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]